But before we go camping we have a very special birthday party for Sarah's 7th birthday!

Hey Joshua — do you know what? It's a girls only party.

Did you know that? Let's just go say "hi" real quick, though, ok?

Joshua no! No boys allowed!

Joshua look! It's all girls — it's all princesses in here!

No boys allowed.

Whoa, look at all these princesses.

Oh wow — it's Sarah's birthday!

So Daddy, are you done?

Because no boys allowed!

Well we didn't come in! See we're just right here, see?

OK, let's go downstairs. Turn off the camera!

So Big J and I are going to play some Windwaker while the girls are upstairs, huh?

(Singing Happy Birthday)

Do you like my new shirt? Well Joshua and I are going out.

It's a ladies' night only at our house — a ladies' party — so we're going to go out and buy a bite to eat. Ha ha! Right Dude?

OK, we got it, huh? Yeah, yeah! Let's eat!

Sarah's got her new doggies. She had a great birthday party.

We get to watch Life in Japan and then tomorrow... Camping!

Well guys, it's our first big camping trip. You guys all ready to go? Yeah!

And this is what it looks like when you pack for six people.

You got the tent, you got our filming gear, you got all kinds of goodies and stuff...

And of course the kids... Roku nin (Six people)

And now we'll finally be on our way!

Where are we? We're in the mountains somewhere.

OK - we're at our spot!

Good thing we practiced this!

We got the whole crew helping — look! Even Joey's like "I'm going to help!"

I'm going to take my mask off because... Mask free zone.

Alright Joey! Way to go, Dude.

Joey Joey — help daddy, ok? Push!

Our first camping excursion in Japan was nearby at Misaki Camping Ground,

near the base of Mount Fuji on a peninsula jutting out into Lake Yamanakako.

Our tent is up!

Uncle Paul's got his tent

They're still working on theirs. Yep.

Lake Yamanakako is less than 2 hours away, which makes it a great setting for a weekend get away from Tokyo.

The campground was full but not crowded. It was the perfect family retreat into nature.

How's it going, Becca? Good.

You excited to do some camping?

Oh my! Do we have all of our spots ready already? Oh look! How cool!

We have Sarah and Anna over here...

(Inaudible)

Joshua and I kick like wild and if somebody kicks us, we don't wake up.

Go get it on that side.

Whoa Anna!

We have our tents up. It's our first one-night excursion here.

Oh yeah! Our first time camping here in Japan.

After we setup our campsite and had lunch, it was time to start exploring our surroundings.

We went to go feed the fish — and the swan got in on the action as well.

Oh my goodness! It's a feeding frenzy!

Ben, do you want to go swim with the fish?

No, do you?

Some like feeding the swan, others preferred feeding the fish. Can you guess what Anna preferred?

Don't... no! Not you, not you.

Fish!

After the smorgasbord was finished, we went to check out Sakura Park in nearby Gotemba. We were in for a big treat.

We going to go check out this park? Does it look so cool?

Oh my goodness, you're seven now. Is life different when you're seven years old?

How is it different?

Well, I get new chores. You get more chores?

And when I go to Paz, when I go to church I go to J-kids.

Oh, when you go to church you go to the older class, the J-kids class, huh?

Because Mommy said only elementary students can go. Whoa, very cool. Now you're elementary — awesome!

Can you do it? Let's see. Whoa, that's skinny!

You're doing a good job though. What is "skinny?"

It's narrow.

Whoa Becster!

Queen of the mountain!

This slide is insane! How cool is Japan?

I'm hurting my butt!

Wow, that was a huge slide!

Let's go to that one next!

Look at this!

There's Mt Fuji. It's a little hard to see today, but it's there.

Daddy hurry!

I need to poop!

You need to go poop?! Yeah.

Oh man! That's like "Floor is Lava."

Here we go, Dude!

This way? We're going up. You want to do that one?

3, 2, 1 ahhhhh!

We did it!

Are you guys helping? Yeah.

Hi Izzy! Is this fun?

Not just the kids had a blast, but the adults did too.

We stayed a long time at the park and even made some new friends along the way! It was a great time.

So this park, on a scale of 1 to 5?

Five. Five stars, bro. A five?!

Holy cow!

This place is awesome! Bring the fam'

Not only is the park awesome, but the weather's great, the company's great.

I'd come here everyday if I could.

It's got a nice little hill for Momma-chan to sit on.

And watch everyone.

I like this slide because two people can go side by side.

Alright! Do you want a whole bread or half of a bread?

Doing your hotdogs over the fire, very cool, huh?

Are you the baby smoke shield? Yea, I am.

Can I hand this to you, yo, Dude, Nate?

Sure! Yes, thank you, Sweetie.

Whoa!

For the adults, some brats!

Sarah, what are you making? A marshmallow.

Good?

Are you chips good, Dude?

Are you ready to explore just a little bit? Maybe we'll see Mt Fuji! Alright.

I'm coming! Oh you are too? Good!

The clouds are coming over the mountains like a blanket!

Oh yea, they're getting ready to sleep.

We get up here a little further and I bet we see all of it.

Oh yea, because you flew the drone and it was like so beautiful. It was so beautiful on the drone, wasn't it?

What do you see? What is it?

Snails! A bunch of snails, huh? Can we get it?

Sure So fun!

Oooooo

Oh look! It's coming out.

Yeah, it wants to walk.

It's alive.

I see Mount Fuji!

Are you going to throw it in, Dude? OK, big throw, big throw!

Now this is Life in Japan! (Singing theme song)

Look at all those snails! This one is out though, the baby one.

That's for dinner.

Is this dessert tonight? Do you want to have snails for dessert?

What did you say? It's all about perspective, Ruth.

What did you say? It looks like a pig's nose.

What did you find, Joshua? Um, a stick! I'm going to throw the stick in the water.

OK, show me!

Whoa, my goodness, look at all of those snails.

We're going to wash our hands real good when we get back, OK?

Look, their eyes are going down.

Then they're going to come back.

Hey Daddy, look, I'm Moses. You're Moses.

Part the water! Part the Red Sea, Boojyah!!!!!

It's not that late yet, but everybody is tired and we're getting ready to go to bed.

So all the kids are going to sleep and I think the adults might stay up a little bit and still chat by the campfire. It should be a lot of fun.

What's the word there? It's chilly in there.

It's chilly in there?! It's cold in there.

Joshua, do you want a corndog? There's Joshua, Sarah's been asleep for a while.

What do you want? I want some pretzels.

One of the best parts of camping is the campfires at night.

So true. Kids are asleep.

Everybody's getting up.

It's a rainy day, so we're going to have to tear everything down in the rain, huh?

Now we get to take our tent down in the rain, so here we go. Let's get 'er done.

Well guys we did it. It's so wet but we got everything back in.

Bye bye campground.

It was fun, wasn't it? Yeah.

Here is the aftermath of camping.

We had to dump all the wet stuff in the entry way and work on getting it all dried and organized.

Well first things first, in order to attack this cleanup really well I think we need a fresh pot of real coffee.

Is there an orange building next to us?

It looks like we own a parachute here.

Are tent is finally stretched out to dry out a little bit, even though it's still rainy out.

We can dry it some, the rain has stopped, that's good!

It's a warm day already.

Boy, we're blessed we got a sunny, beautiful day, didn't we?

Let's get these tents setup and dried out, right?

OK, we got Ben's tent setup to dry, we got his tarp over here.

The big one is the tent. We're going to set this thing up again, man!

The sun is just beating down now but we almost got the tent setup.

Ben's showing us how it's done. We're doing it, man.

We don't have Ruth here so we're proving that we can do it without her, although it is so much nicer with her.

So we got our tent setup. It's all good. It's airing out.

Ben help me set it up and God gave us a beautiful day so we could dry out tents.

Because it's supposed to rain all week this week, so this is our only chance to do it.

Thank goodness for a sunny day to dry our things.

We had a blast camping, and we're looking forward to more camping.

So thanks for watching, liking and subscribing.

And we'll see you next time on Life in Japan. Bye bye.